There's almost 0 state efforts to preserve the cultural identities of immigrants of any kind
When people celebrate "diversity" in the West, it's just eating shawarma, drinking boba, watching Anime, listening to kpop, and eating at an Ethiopian restaurant. Pure commodification and consumerism masquerading as celebration and promotion of foreign cultures
Or you'll have people fetishizing about spicy latinas, lightskins, and Asians like they're fucking Pokemon cards
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Yes but this is why "assimilation" is not a good thing in this instance. It's certainly not "genocide" but it's 100% not a good thing. Assimilation to burgerland is tantamount to cultural death, and often real death when your home is not your home and there's nowhere to escape to because you've been severed from any place that might take you in.
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What about an emigrant who assimilates and does not teach their kids their "native" language due to the massive cultural pressure of living in the imperial core? Now those kids are stranded, unable to feel at home in the metropole, unable to return to the land of their parents, imprisoned in a place that will never accept them and cut off from anybody who would. Emigrants can return. Can second generation? Third generation, like the woman in the screengrab above? Not easily, not likely.
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